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Wishing and Hoping: Card Tricks, Love Spells, and Methods of Escape

  • Bonnie Johnson
  • August 16, 2016
I’ll go one further and posit that we need our illusionists: to disprove our eyes, investigate our dreams, and sometimes charm the money from our pockets.
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A Case, Diagnosis, and Its Findings

  • Shuly Xóchitl Cawood
  • August 10, 2016
There was nothing open about my heart; my chest tightened, threatening to implode.
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The Rumpus Interview with Leigh Stein

  • Sarah Lyn Rogers
  • August 8, 2016
Leigh Stein discusses her new memoir, Land of Enchantment, co-founding Out of the Binders, and why most of her projects begin as "an idea that someone else pushes back on."
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No Need for Defense

  • Kelly Lynn Thomas
  • July 27, 2016
What did I learn from falling in love with a trans person? That spark plugs are on sale this week at Fleet Farm. How to feed a chicken. How to…
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This Week in Short Fiction

  • Claire Burgess
  • July 8, 2016
This week, Guernica has a new story from author and veteran Odie Lindsey, whose debut story collection about soldiers coming home from war, We Come to Our Senses, will be…
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How We Break

  • Annalise Mabe
  • July 6, 2016
There is breaking, and there is breaking free from the broken.
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Out the Road

  • Kenneth R. Rosen
  • July 5, 2016
Long before reaching it, I knew about the end.
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The Sunday Rumpus Essay: Do You Have a Beau?

  • Ariel Gore
  • July 3, 2016
Shame is the haunting that’s hardest to scrub away.
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(K)ink: Writing While Deviant: Jera Brown

  • Jera Brown
  • June 14, 2016
I wanted to uncover the nest of wires comprising my gender identity and describe its complicated mass.
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Rapture of the Deep

  • Melynda Fuller
  • June 10, 2016
The point is not to lose yourself to that landscape, and to not become fearful of new landscapes.
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The Saturday Rumpus Essay: Instructions for Replicating a Bad Summer

  • Megan Burbank
  • May 28, 2016
Compare yourself to a raw wound. Explain that everyone else is one too, whether they know it or not.
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This Week in Short Fiction

  • Claire Burgess
  • May 27, 2016
Thomas Pierce made a name for himself as a talented spinner of strange stories with his debut collection Hall of Small Mammals, and in a new story at The Masters…
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